OUR STORY 

LGBTQIA+ life at Lehigh has a long and complex history, and the work of social justice within queer communities has consistently been led by passionate and resilient student leaders on Lehigh’s campus. The first known organized group came together at Lehigh in early 1972; the “Homophile Society” (LE-HI-HO) was founded by a group of students and University Chaplain Hubert L. Flesher as a space for gay and lesbian students to come together to be in community with one another. In a decade where a campus fraternity actively ousted openly gay members of their community while administrators refused to acknowledge “homosexual” students, LE-HI-HO was an early iteration of a group dedicated to campus education, advocacy, and safety. LE-HI-HO, however, was not an officially recognized organization on campus, and demand continued to increase for officially-recognized LGB groups in the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges (LVAIC) community.  To Be Continued...

....more Lehigh LGBTQ+ history to be featured all month long in our 
Pride Alive newsletters. Read the full Brown & White articles on our history page at https://diversityandinclusion.lehigh.edu/pride-center/our-history